Under the Greenwood Tree

The title predates the book-club era and no book-club issue exists. Later one-volume issues, including an 1878 Chatto & Windus edition, are common and carry Hardy's name on the title page with a later date. A specific cataloguing trap to know: reputable dealers list an 1883 issue under the headline description 'the first Wessex novel,' which is a later printing — that phrase describes the work's place in Hardy's Wessex sequence and is not an edition statement, and the same phrase is applied to the genuine 1872 first. Read the imprint and date, not the headline.